Europeana 1914-1918 website relaunched!

Europeana 1914-1918 now brings together resources from three major European projects each dealing with different types of First World War material. That means that national collections from libraries now sit alongside personal stories and treasures as well as important film archives. Together, this creates a unique perspective of the First World War, showing it from every side of the battle lines and with insights from every point of view. Over time, even more material will be added to this archive so please keep coming back!

So, what has the site got?

The new-look home page of Europeana 1914-1918!

Stories from the public: We’re still collecting the public’s previously unpublished letters, photographs and keepsakes from the war. So far, a dozen countries have taken part in our family history roadshows, digitising over 90,000 items and adding more than 7,000 stories.

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National collections: The Europeana Collections 1914-1918 project has produced a substantial digital collection of over 400,000 pieces of material from national libraries in eight countries that found themselves on different sides of the historic conflict. Check out the video below which provides a glimpse into the content from Europeana Collections 1914-1918.

Film archives: The European Film Gateway 1914 project gives us 660 hours of films and related material on the First World War including newsreels, documentaries, fiction films, propaganda and anti-war films. This material is especially important since only around 20% of the complete silent film production of the era has survived.

Example search results on the new-look Europeana 1914-1918

And there’s even more: You can also find material on this site from other European collections and projects, as well as information from outside Europe – from the Digital Public Library of America, Trove (Australia), and Digital New Zealand.

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